On Jun 23, 2005, at 8:26 PM, R. Mark Volkmann wrote: > How can I create a Class object from a String that contains the > name of a class? > For example, after > > clazz = Array > > the variable clazz holds a Class object representing the class Array. > I want to start with a string like this. > > name = 'Array' > clazz = ??? clazz = Object.const_get(name) Hope that helps. James Edward Gray II